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...ribbon from a rolled document and began to read the bill for the manufacture and sale of 3.2% beer. A forest of tripoded newsreel cameras and lights hemmed him in against a heavy window drapery. His gold signet ring glinted in the artificial glare as he fingered the crisp white pages before him. At a photographer's command he picked up a pen and wrote Frank. With another he added I'm D. A third pen got as far as Roos. A fourth finished the job with evelt and thereby legalized beer sales beginning April...
...days later a huge trimotored liner of Britain's Imperial Airwrays, flying from Cologne to London, burst into flames, plummeted to earth near Essen, Germany. All twelve passengers and the crew of three were burned crisp...
...manufacture the new money the Bureau of Engraving & Printing went into 24-hour operation, its blue lights gleaming through the night across the Tidal Basin. Its 4,500 employes turned out crisp new bales of cash. Trucks, airplanes and trains rushed it cross-countrv to the twelve Federal Reserve banks from which it was distributed like a financial blood transfusion to member banks...
...eyes. Since 1906 she has taught zoology at Mount Holyoke (except for two years at Cornell), has headed her department since 1916. During school hours she habitually wears a tailored skirt, shirtwaist, tie, white "physician's" coat. She moves briskly about her laboratories, lectures her classes in clear, crisp tones. Her recent writings for learned publications have dealt with the winter habits and yearly food consumption of adult spotted newts. But her favorite preoccupation has been and, says she, will always be Mayflies, because Mayflies are fine for small boys to fish with. Her field book on ponds...
...budget balancer and, though himself a veteran, is committed to "purging the pension rolls," even to the extent of knocking out the $400,000,000 now paid for non-military disabilities. When it comes to Government spending, able "Lew" Douglas, with the President's backing, will issue crisp orders to the ten members of the Cabinet the theory: they will obey...